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12.03.2008

Saban weighs in

Nick Saban from his press conference earlier:

"I really question some of the judgment relative to how it is for our game that people who have those kinds of relationships and have done that kind of job and affected so many people in a positive way and have had a reasonable amount of success relative to their circumstances, would not be given more respect and consideration that what these guys have been. So I guess we're 5-7 away from the same thing."

I don't think Saban thinks that way. That's sort of a bonehead, Alabama fan way of thinking. Or Paul Finebaum.

Saban is a coach and those guys, most of them, are sort of a fraternity. Everybody recognizes Tubs ran a clean show. And Auburn isn't as good as other programs right now because of it in my opinion. It's extremely hard work playing fair and doing the right thing.

There's a ruthless coach across the state who wants to destroy his enemies. And some of us are weeping because we've canned a perennial 8-4 coach. In 6 years, our TOTAL margin of victory in the Iron Bowl was 37 points. Saban nearly matched that in 1 game.

Go recite the Auburn Creed 10 times, click your heels together and say "There's no place like Toomers...There's no place like Toomers."

Meanwhile, there's still a ruthless bastard in T-Town who wants to grind us into dust.

Y'all still want to say "Aw, shucks," like Tubby? or do you want somebody who'll compete with him and go for the throat?

I doubt Saban fears any hire. I think he was genuine and you will likely see on ESPN a lot of similar reactions. Auburn would have been much wiser to have given Tuberville the benefit of the doubt on the Franklin hire. If he had flopped next season, nobody would have thought this to be such an idiotic move.

he got the benefit of the doubt when he promoted the wrong coach in 03 and let a championship team lose a season. Then he hired the right coach in 04 and went undefeated. This year he made the same mistake with a less talented team..hired the wrong coach again. If you don't learn from your mistakes your gonna repeat em.

Look, Saban didn't dominate the world at LSU where he had no in state competition. Some of you live in la la land. There are 4 or 5 programs in the SEC that could bust out a championship type season in any given year. Alabama is one of those places. Obviously, Auburn is, too.

Wow. Saban really has no respect at all for AU. How worried about his big buddy Tuberville was he when he was throwing the ball into the end zone with 3 minutes on the clock and exhorting his players to run up the score because "he f'ing hates that team"?